Lesser mottled grasshopper

Stenobothrus stigmaticus

''Stenobothrus stigmaticus'' is a species belonging to the family Acrididae subfamily Gomphocerinae and is sometimes called the lesser mottled grasshopper.
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Distribution

The species inhabits most of Europe, from southern Spain to Scandinavia, in the east it reaches the Baltic Sea coast . In the southeast, it reaches European Russia via the Balkan Peninsula and Northern Greece. In Italy, in the south part of the Alps, ''Stenobothrus stigmaticus'' is replaced by her extremely similar sister species ''Stenobothrus apenninus''. In the British Isles ''S. stigmaticus'' was originally only found on the Isle of Man, but records now exist for north Wales and the Wash .

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Taxonomy
KingdomAnimalia
DivisionArthropoda
ClassInsecta
OrderOrthoptera
FamilyAcrididae
GenusStenobothrus
SpeciesS. stigmaticus
Photographed in
Germany